tinselly
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Origin of tinselly
Example Sentences
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It’s a magpie movie that’s happy to give audiences the tinselly things they want — i.e., two robots clobbering the Wi-Fi out of each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
“Upstairs” meant the museum’s fourth and fifth floors, where “Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle,” on view through Feb. 19, is currently offering perhaps the city’s most glittery, tinselly, witty display of bling this holiday season.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
They were a bit cringeworthy, I thought, but I wanted a tinselly, childlike vibe for an evening house party.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022
It also feels like a postmodern spin on pictures like The Producers and Wag the Dog, with practitioners of the showbiz black arts creating tinselly illusions.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012
His baits are always of a tinselly or shadowy nature, either worthless when caught, or altogether illusions, as useless to people in general as the gold chains and silk waistcoats are to these rough pirates.
From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by C. J. de Lacey
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